Best Outage Poems

POWER OUTAGE

I should say outrage!
My favorite T.V. show
Blacked-out just like (snap!) that
Wind was like a hurricane
Scared hell out of the cat

Whole trees blown over
My house dark as Asa’s tomb
I’m feeling my way
Stumbling on familiar things
Cursing the maddening gloom

Think of olden days
Young Abe reading by hearth...

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When it’s dark, and you’re cold. When the wind howls at the windows, and rain pounds on the roof. When you’ve got no electricity. When you’ve only a few pennies in your wallet, not enough fuel in the car, and it looks as though the...

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The sky turned black;
Yes, blacker than night'
When the heavens were split,
By a quick burst of light.
Scientist tell us that lightning
Goes from the earth to the skies, 
But, truthfully, it happens way to fast,
To be verified by my aging eyes'
Something was struck,
For I heard a large...

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Heat escapes
through closet doors
and breathes the frozen oxygen
my body slowly cools
beneath a doubled comforter
  O! I see a flash
      a flash of my mortality!
A creep of winter
spies my feet
and dances along my tender skin.
In frantic fear
my feet draw near
and...

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Here I sit alone
Alone in the dark
No light anywhere
Not even a little spark

The lights went out
Halfway through the storm
Life tomorrow will be
Nothing like the norm. 

Hurricane Zeta
Came through with a fury
To the shelter
We must go in a hurry

The winds were so strong
And blew with such...

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percussion hailstorm
my ears no longer bored
daydreaming about oceans

mixing memories
during power outage thoughts
an escapade my uber sunshine

nodding my head with eyes closed
to some rare 90s hip hop
candy sunglasses tastes like cinnamon

watching lightning threaten me
as i sit under a tree
remembering things like the fiddlers three

now the wind...

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The thunder boomed; the lights went out.
The air was close and still.
Without the fans, we really couldn’t
Close our eyes and chill.

Our little lantern pierced the dark,
Its double A’s still pepped
And somehow, as the rain poured down,
Eventually, we slept.

Two hours passed; my lamp blinked on.
I felt...

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Suddenly
we are freed from the burden
of technology.

The universe
reveals itself in a flicker
of golden candlelight.

Mandela, a circle
without beginning, without end.
Can we know ourselves?

Image: Pixabay...

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Ear splitting silence
Everything stops with a halt
The rattle and hum cease
I lay there
Listening to the blood rushing through my ears and veins
I live on the edge of a farm field
Pitch black
No wind to blow
Without the din
How am I to sleep...

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OMG people
Where’s the toilet paper 
This shortage were having 
Is major
People going nuts
Shopping like mad
It’s all so sad
Think of others
your leaving without
What are they to do? 
While sitting on the loo 
Doing a poo. 
Come on guys
You’re in a frenzy
Time to go 
Steady.
Shops will continue...

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It is a cold stormy winter’s night.
And the power has gone out once again!
I light my candles and throw a log on my fire,
The bright embers burning a rich amber as they spark. 
I turn up the volume of Paul Simon at Hyde Park. 
Thank...

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Electricity’s out, how do I choose
the first task after a storm to amuse?
Might I discover new sources in me?
To start, I'll replace my personal fuse.

Next, a novel concept, I'll take a walk,
find out what's making my neighbors all squawk.
Old Mr. Harris is banging loudly,
No telly...

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Trees and branches sway.
The power has moved outside.
The house is too still.

A wren chirps sweetly,
defying chaotic winds--
innocent solace...

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spring storm   
small poems to read
by candlelight

published Frog Pond 36-2, May 2013...

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